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I noted yesterday the unusual story of Alvin Greene, the unemployed, felony-indicted Army vet who managed to win the Democratic nomination in the South Carolina Senate race, despite having not held a single campaign event or spent a single dollar on the race.

Now House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) is calling for his state to investigate Greene's victory, and suggested that he might be a "Republican plant."

"There were some real shenanigans going on in the South Carolina primary," Clyburn said during an appearance on the liberal Bill Press radio show. "I don't know if he was a Republican plant; he was someone's plant."

The third-ranking House Democrat said he found it strange that Greene, a relative unknown prior to Tuesday, was able to produce the money to register and run for Senate despite being unemployed.

Greene allegedly tried to pay the registation fee in cash, and Clyburn said he wondered whether an outside party might have funded both the fee and Greene's campaign, in violation of federal campaign finance laws. ...

What they fail to address (and for good reason) is that he got something like 60 percent of the vote. It doesn't matter who planted him, the democractic voters chose him over their party's perfered candidate and that is truly embarrassing. This whole plant thing is just a smoke screen to distract from the embarrassment he represents to the democrat party.

What they fail to address (and for good reason) is that he got something like 60 percent of the vote. It doesn't matter who planted him, the democractic voters chose him over their party's perfered candidate and that is truly embarrassing. This whole plant thing is just a smoke screen to distract from the embarrassment he represents to the democrat party.

Actually, now that I think about, there may be some perverse logic at work here. What democrat Senator is in the best position not to screw the country? The one doing 5 to 10 in prison during freshman Senate term.

Actually, now that I think about, there may be some perverse logic at work here. What democrat Senator is in the best position not to screw the country? The one doing 5 to 10 in prison during freshman Senate term.

good point. Of course he stands a snowballs chance in hell of actually winning . . . .

Don't ya know that a crook/criminal is an acceptable and preferred candidate by Democratic voters.:eek::)

Being a criminal demonstrates the necessary lack of ethics that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi expect in their caucus. He's the perfect Democratic candidate. I can just see the media telling us that his crimes don't matter because they don't relate to the office that he's running for, or because he holds the right opinions or some such blather. Has the NY Times or Washington Post endorsed him yet?

I wonder what he's been charged with. You don't suppose he's a community organizer, too? :D